The Daily Kitten on boxee
love cats? you’ll love The Daily Kitten.
you can get your daily kitten fix by going to the The Daily Kitten website, get kitten updates on Twitter, use The Daily Kitten on your iPhone, and now view kittens on your flatscreen TV on boxee!
like Michael O’keefe who built the app, we believe people should be able to enjoy pictures of cute kittens anywhere, anytime and on any device. Michael is making it happen.
Michael O’Keefe in his own words about building The Daily Kitten boxee app:
I’m a big boxee fan and when I heard that the API for building apps had been published I was really excited to give it a try. Fortunately I had some great content (kittens!) to share with everyone, so I just dove in.
The API documentation provided a good starting point but the ability to examine other apps by looking at their source files allowed me to understand some of the finer points of building an app. I did have to write a couple of fairly simple data feeds from the TheDailyKitten.com server, but they were very similar to my existing RSS feed so it wasn’t too much trouble.
I’m really happy with how the app turned out. It’s really easy to navigate through the pictures with the remote and the kittens look great on a big-screen TV.



This app is broken as of a couple days ago: whenever you click on the kitten to see its pics you get an http file not found error.